yellow watercress
- noun
:
berroa amarilla
- She added fresh yellow watercress to the salad for extra flavor and color.
Examples
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Wild yellow watercress can quickly take over wet garden beds if not controlled.
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Farmers often consider yellow watercress a troublesome weed in irrigated fields.
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I found some yellow watercress growing by the stream.
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Have you ever tried yellow watercress in a salad?
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She added fresh yellow watercress to the salad for extra flavor and color.
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Farmers often consider yellow watercress a troublesome weed in irrigated fields.
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Wild yellow watercress can quickly take over wet garden beds if not controlled.
Synonyms
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A small leafy plant that grows in water used in salads
A small leafy plant like cress that grows in wet places and can be eaten or become a weed
A plant that grows in wet places and is eaten in salads and sometimes removed as a weed
A water plant with peppery edible leaves that grows in cool streams in the United States
A leafy plant that grows in water with a peppery taste, often used in salads
A plant with small edible leaves that grows in cold mountain springs
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Morphology
This is a straightforward adjective+noun composition: a B1 learner who knows 'yellow' and 'watercress' can readily infer it refers to watercress that is yellow (a color or variety). The meaning follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern of color modification of a noun, so the sense is directly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
The noun yellow watercress names a water plant: watercress is a peppery green that grows in wet places, and yellow points to its small yellow flowers or yellow leaves. Picture those low green plants with yellow flowers spreading in ditches, and you can see why people add them to a 'salad' for flavor but also call them a 'weed' when they take over fields.